Alex M Stanley

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Profile

I build and operate projects across culture, communications and technology — event production, digital products, campaigns, social media, community projects and increasingly technical systems.

Experience

• Founder & Coordinator — Fractal Nights & Fractal Bristol

  April 2019 – present

  Founded and coordinated an independent, non-profit events project — building its operational framework, booking processes, brand identity and governance, and coordinating events, teams and finances across multiple UK cities.

  • Established operational structure, booking systems and brand identity from the outset
  • Coordinated event logistics, promotion, artist booking, fee negotiation and risk management
  • Managed bookkeeping and financing for the project
  • Led teams of up to around 15 people
  • Affiliated teams under the same framework contributed to a wider programme of 70+ events

• Head of Social Media & Production Assistant — Void Radio, Bristol

  June 2025 – January 2026

  Media operations and production role covering scheduled social output, announcement graphics and live broadcast support for a station with an active online following.

  • Coordinated scheduled social media output using Buffer
  • Worked on a platform with 3,000+ Instagram followers
  • Produced and updated announcement graphics
  • Assisted with live broadcast setup, pack-down and troubleshooting
  • Coordinated contributors around scheduling and production needs

• Helpdesk Agent — Hargreaves Lansdown

  December 2023 – June 2024

  Client support role handling high-volume queries within a regulated financial services environment.

  • Handled high-volume client queries, including withdrawals and account administration
  • Worked within regulated financial processes
  • Contributed to internal support materials

• Social Media, Marketing & Content Manager — Voices for Smarter Choices / Oxford Psych Society

  June 2023

  • Managed social media advertising and advertising budgets
  • Wrote and planned advertising content; contributed to campaign graphics
  • Collated organic networks for campaign outreach

• Welfare Volunteer — PsyCare UK

  2021

  Trained festival welfare volunteer, working across six festivals.

  • Supported people experiencing intoxication, distress or difficult experiences
  • Coordinated with security and emergency services where necessary
  • Setup and pack-down; some involvement with organisational funding and grants

• Customer Service Manager — SchoolGuide.co.uk

  Customer communication, administration and people-facing service management.

• Sales Representative — Link Publishing

  Commercial and sales experience in a customer-facing role.

Independent projects

• Founder — RaverDating & BristolSinglesDating

  Niche dating platforms built and maintained end to end — domain registration and DNS through to user acquisition and paid conversion work. 282 registrations and £1,285.93 lifetime revenue, with Google Ads as a significant acquisition channel.

• Bristol FloorScan — property capture (developing)

  An early-stage property-capture venture and technical/operations project.

Education

Writing & talks

• President, Durham University Psychedelic Society (November 2018 – July 2021) and later the UK Psychedelic Alumni Network — programmed and ran a series of invited talks
• Secured, coordinated and hosted a talk by Dr David Nichols, January 2022
• "A Phenomenology of Psychedelics" — talk, Anthropos festival, 2022
• Bioethics paper critiquing genetic enhancement in humans — presented at Critique, Durham University's undergraduate philosophy conference, 2019
• British Philosophy Society journal — editor

Technical skills